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“A raw, intimate look at the impact of combat and the healing power of friendship” (People): the lives of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the effect of their military service on their personal lives and families—named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly.“In the tradition of Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Richard Rhodes, and other masters of literary journalism /5().

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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War Helen Thorpe, Scribner pp. ISBN Summary A groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal lives, and their families.

This is the story of how America’s first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. Inthe U.S. Army Signal Corps sent women to France.

They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone by: 3. What Thorpe accomplishes in “Soldier Girls” is something far greater than describing the experiences of women in the military. The book is a solid chunk of American history — detailing the. Valentine’s Day in Afghanistan: The sky is a solid mass of clouds, snow has been falling for weeks, and a female soldier is huddled in her plywood hut making a valentine for her Afghani translator with glitter pens and construction paper.

Helen Thorpe’s new book, Soldier Girls: The Battles of Read full article >. Soldier Girls puts both wars and our military involvement in human terms. It is triumph and tragedy. I hope the twenty something's will read this book to gain insight into the distance between those making life and death decisions and those who carry them out.

Also the reader had the right tone for the story. Deeply reported, beautifully written, and powerfully moving, Soldier Girls is “a breakthrough work What Thorpe accomplishes in Soldier Girls is something far greater than describing the experience of women in the military. The book is a solid chunk of American history Thorpe triumphs” (The New York Times Book Review)/5(62).

Helen Thorpe talks about her book, [Soldier Girls], in which she profiles three women - a college student, a single mother, and a grandmother - who joined the Indiana National Guard and were.

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The book is a solid chunk of American history Thorpe triumphs” (The New York Times Book Review)/5(10). 'Soldier Girls' book shows trials, triumphs of women in Guard. Journalist Helen Thorpe profiles three Hoosier women through enlistment, training, deployment and re-entry into civilian life.

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Join AAUW for an online book discussion on July We’ll talk with Helen Thorpe, author of Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War.

About the book: Many U.S. soldiers sent overseas since have been women. Surrounded and far outnumbered by men, women soldiers have a decidedly different experience of war. Thorpe follows the lives of three women over 12 years.

Deeply reported, beautifully written, and powerfully moving, Soldier Girls is “a breakthrough work What Thorpe accomplishes in Soldier Girls is something far greater than describing the experience of women in the military.

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